↑A 2003 U.S State Department report states the following: "Although the 2002 census estimated the population at 1,015,000, credible estimates put the number at closer to 500,000. The opposition claimed that the Government inflated the census in anticipation of the December presidential election." (...) "Opposition leaders charged earlier in the year that census results showing a twofold population increase were flawed and that numbers were inflated to perpetuate election fraud." [5] The official census figures are available here.

↑Excludes the island of Mayotte. The Tlacetilīlli Tlācatiyān is 839,000 (including Mayotte)

↑Tlacetilīlli Tlācatiyān for mid-2007 is 13,000, which includes the population of residents only.